A Brief Comment on Emotional Demand by Robert Karasek

Certainly many emotional communications are demanding because of all the "implications" of the message for the personal relationships involved, and the strategies needed in selecting and evaluating alternative messages. It is the burden of complicated action consequences that makes the communication burdensome, rather than its explicit emotional quality. Knowing that the result of the argument will be a permanent social split, or that in the future retribution could occur as a result of a fight, etc. leads to many levels of internal assessment and conflict, and complex goal resolution. Thus, many levels of mental engagement may be needed for some social interactions because of their important of difficult consequences.

This may help with the link revised "demands" to the proposed JCQ 2.0 expanded decision latitude framework, and might require the Stress Disequilibrium model's breadth.  This is the basis of my "emotional demands" definition comment in the JCQ 2.0 website material: "the need to more sensitively measure the mental work load costs of engaging in complex, strategically planned, and emotionally engaging social behaviors in organizationally complex situations."